> Would you spend time soldering, even if you might get screwed up? Or, do you > finish soldering efficiently without any failure?
When you put it that way, how could we refuse? I’m in :-) On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Kurt L Keville <[email protected]> wrote: > This is quite interesting... especially the cheap enough to be disposable > part... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom > Metro > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [HH] BiscuitBoard > > A Japanese research team was exploring how to make a typical solderless > breadboard thinner (you know, the white plastic blocks full of holes, that > are about 1/4" thick), and they kept running into the problem that if you > stuck a component with a large diameter lead into a hole, the spring might > get permanently deformed (also a problem for traditional solderless > breadboards, especially cheap ones). Then they thought, what if they could > make the boards cheap enough so that they could be considered one-time use. > In the same way that soldered perf or proto board gets "consumed" by the > project you use it on. > > Their solution is the BiscuitBoard, which from the top surface looks like a > tan PCB, much like a soldered perf board. Except the bottom side looks the > same as the top - no copper pads. The side view shows that it is about 2 or 3 > times the thickness of typical PCB material. Hidden inside are the spring > contacts that make it solderless. > > You push components into the holes, which go through both sides of the board, > and then you trim off the excess leads on the bottom. Exact same thing you'd > do with a soldered perf board, just no soldering. > > The idea here is that these would bridge the gap between a solderless > breadboard (used for your initial prototype) and a soldered perf board, being > particularly appealing to novice builders who aren't comfortable with > soldering. > > Knowing that the components will be installed in a more permanent fashion on > these boards, they upped the spring tension, so they claim significantly > greater force is required to pull out wires compared to a solderless > breadboard. > > As an added bonus, the 4 corner mounting holes are sized to fit LEGO posts. > The kit comes with some cylindrical LEGO parts that can be used as standoffs > and to stack multiple boards. > > They're running a Kickstarter for this: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252587878/biscuit-board-solderless-prototyping-board > > The first tier is 2 sets of boards, the LEGO standoffs, and free shipping for > $28. You can get a (half-length, which is what these compare to) solderless > breadboard for about $4 each, so they'll need to get close to that. Even > though they aren't reusable, I could see someone paying $5 for one to gain > the more finished appearance, vibration resistant connections, and thinner > profile. But much more than that, and they'll be too costly. > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
